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Whale remnants and local fisherman, Sri Lanka.
While on vacation in Sri Lanka I visited this nice empty beach in Trinkomalee. Walking along the beach, I ...
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Whale remnants and local fisherman, Sri Lanka.
While on vacation in Sri Lanka I visited this nice empty beach in Trinkomalee. Walking along the beach, I came across a cozy cafe where instead of chairs on the floor there were objects of a strange shape.
After a while, I realized that these were the bones of a large animal. I spoke to the bartender, who said that these bones are the vertebrae of a blue whale that washed up on the shore many years ago. I asked permission to photograph them and decided that I needed to put them on the beach in the form of a spine, which I did. The vertebrae were quite heavy, so I had to tinker with them. In the end it worked out well, but still something was missing. At that moment, a fisherman with a bicycle was walking along the shore and I kindly asked him to stand in the tail, and this is what happened in the end.
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